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Fixing features for hotfolder

Submitted by drew on Sat, 09/12/2015 - 17:12

Here is some documentation about the process I used to solve some issues with hotfolder and the features module. I was doing this partly through the web interface and partly through a console, so this is a reconstruction of what I remember and the console log.

The features settings on the web page (/admin/structure/features/hotfolder), showed it was stuck rebuilding the fields.To make features try again to rebuild fields, delete this variable:

> drush variable-delete features_semaphore

At some point, the module wouldn't install properly, and was giving me the field exception. (there is a lot of repeating commands, so remember that you can select a command from the console history using up-arrow.)

... and then try to disable/uninstall/reenable again, which most of the time resulted in a different field causing the exception. Keep repeating these steps until the module is installed without giving an exception.